Setting up web server on Mac OS X with wordpress

Ashmeet Singh    Uncategorized     lion, local, mac, MAMP, mountain, os, server, web, Wordpress, x

I think setting up a local web server on your system is one of the initial steps you take if you are a web developer. Having done a similar post for windows Doing this for a mac seemed a subsequent step. On a mac this process is a bit easier than that on windows. The only thing you will need is a MAMP server package. MAMP stands for Mac Apache MySql Php server. This lets you run a web server with a php engine and an sql server which is mostly what you need to run a website. You can download the package from here. read more

Index network drives by Spotlight search on Mac OS X

Ashmeet Singh    Featured, Mac, Networking     drive, index, mac, network, os, Search, spotlight, x

Spotlight has one of the best made search algorithms of all times. It gives you instant search results so as you start typing in something relavent data starts showing up. All this is true for the mac but for any resource outside the mac spotlight does not work by its self. If you try to use spotlight in a network drive or folder it will show no results. read more

Stream audio from mac to windows via airplay wirelessly

Ashmeet Singh    Featured, How To, Mac, Networking, Windows     airplay, apple, audio, ipad, iphone, mac, stream, wifi, Windows

Apple devices have a feature called AirPlay in them which allow you to stream audio as well as video (from newer devices) to some AirPlay enabled device such as an Airport Extreme. But buying an airport device and also a separate set of speakers unique with it just to stream music seems useless. To get around this condition all you need is an old windows machine. You can disguise your windows machine as an Airplay device and the mac or your iphone will wirelessly send the audio to the windows machine. read more

Hibernate your Mac OS Mountain Lion on MacBook Pro

Ashmeet Singh    Featured, How To, Mac     hibernation, lion, mac, macbook, mountain, os, pro, sleep, x

Apple provides for you a way to put your Macbook pro to sleep but sleep mode maintains everything on your ram and drains a lot of battery from your Macbook pro. The windows systems have a way around it that is hibernation. Hibernations puts all the contents of your ram onto your hard disk drive and literally switches off your system saving a lot of battery power. By default this feature is switched off on Mac OS X ,I simply don’t know why.

There is a way to convert your sleep mode into hibernation on Mac OS X. It will work on all macs including Macbook Pro , iMac , Mac mini or anything that runs Mac OS X even a hackintosh. read more

Clear/Flush DNS cache on Windows Mac and Linux

Ashmeet Singh    Featured, How To, Linux, Mac, Windows     cache, clear, connection, dns, linux.mountain, lion, mac, server, vista, Windows, xp

Being a server administrator I have to deal with a hell lot of ip address and domain names. One of the major problem that I face while configuring a server is sometimes I have to change ip addresses to different domain names for certain purposes and when you go to test if you have successfully established a connection or not the computer gives you an error just because it still has that old ip address in the memory and is constantly trying to connect to a dead ip.

This might be a useful feature for average users who visit Facebook and YouTube dozen of times a day as it reduces the time the browser takes to download pages from the servers of the websites by eliminating the need for a DNS server by caching the most visited url. read more

Custom create your own torrent

Ashmeet Singh    Blogging, Featured, Networking     mac, sharing, torrent, Windows

We all have downloaded stuff using torrents. Torrents aren’t just good for downloading stuff but also can be used for personal file sharing system. Suppose you have to send a large file to a number of people. The online file sharing services are there but privacy is a major issue with them. Making an safe and secure transfer of file is a really tough task but torrents can be used in such a senario. read more